can you show me where you used to sleep rough? yeah, i used to come down this way on my own sometimes. i used to have tears thinking, what am i going to do? why did this happen to me? when he was 16, simon became homeless after problems with his family. sometimes i d sleep in the toilet at night because it was warm, safe. i just didn t feel safe anywhere. it was just really, really horrible. i felt so insecure. at times i d feel like committing suicide. simon continued to have struggles into his adult life, but streetwise 0pera helped him turn things around. it s an opera company that works with people who have experienced homelessness. it s wonderful. i ve never looked back since. it s changed my life completely from head to toe, from within.
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